Conquoring day 1!!! Who's beating this with me?
:rays:Good morning everyone! It's a bright and frosty day here in the UK - but loving the crisp sunshine (even though I can only admire it through the window from my desk!) Will treat my dogs to a lovely long walk in a few hours when I've got some work under my belt.
Juja - I just wanted to reply to your post about feeling a failure because you read about people racking up 30 day, 60 days etc and can't seem to get beyond 3 or 4. Do you know - I think that the majority of us are YOU - I still haven't been able to kick this (10 days was my record - how sad is that!!) But one thing that all of the 'successful' people keep saying is that they were all in the same boat once. Many of them tried over and over to kick AL and one day something clicked and made it happen.
Someone asked me to write an article about giving up smoking a week or so ago and it really made me think. I used to smoke like a chimney for years and years. I tried everything to give up - nicotine patches, hypnotherapy - but just couldn't kick those cigs. Then I got divorced (about 12 years ago) and bought a new house on my own and decided that from the day I moved into my lovely clean house - with my fresh new start - I would never smoke another cigarette again. And I haven't. And it was so easy! I didn't really crave cigs anymore and have never been tempted to smoke again. I think it's because I truly wanted to do it for myself. I now believe that we truly have to want to give up AL to make it happen so I'm trying to think of this fresh new start where I only put good food into my body and no more poison. Another real bit of encouragement for me - I met a lady who I've worked in the same industry with for quite a few years and she looked amazing. She's 52 but has lost two stone and her hair and skin looked so good. I asked her what diet she had been following and she said 'none - I've simply given up alcohol, started eating sensibly and get lots of exercise.'
Caper - thank you also for your recommendation to pray. I used to be a Christian (I suppose deep down I always will be) but stopped attending church a few years ago because I felt like an unworthy hypocrite knowing I was drinking myself blind drunk every night. Anyway - I took your advise and started praying again, for God to take away my desire to drink and feel a real sense of peace when I pray - that will be another 'tool' in my box.
Anyway - better get on with some work!! Have a good AL free day everyone.
Snap :rays:
:rays:Good morning everyone! It's a bright and frosty day here in the UK - but loving the crisp sunshine (even though I can only admire it through the window from my desk!) Will treat my dogs to a lovely long walk in a few hours when I've got some work under my belt.
Juja - I just wanted to reply to your post about feeling a failure because you read about people racking up 30 day, 60 days etc and can't seem to get beyond 3 or 4. Do you know - I think that the majority of us are YOU - I still haven't been able to kick this (10 days was my record - how sad is that!!) But one thing that all of the 'successful' people keep saying is that they were all in the same boat once. Many of them tried over and over to kick AL and one day something clicked and made it happen.
Someone asked me to write an article about giving up smoking a week or so ago and it really made me think. I used to smoke like a chimney for years and years. I tried everything to give up - nicotine patches, hypnotherapy - but just couldn't kick those cigs. Then I got divorced (about 12 years ago) and bought a new house on my own and decided that from the day I moved into my lovely clean house - with my fresh new start - I would never smoke another cigarette again. And I haven't. And it was so easy! I didn't really crave cigs anymore and have never been tempted to smoke again. I think it's because I truly wanted to do it for myself. I now believe that we truly have to want to give up AL to make it happen so I'm trying to think of this fresh new start where I only put good food into my body and no more poison. Another real bit of encouragement for me - I met a lady who I've worked in the same industry with for quite a few years and she looked amazing. She's 52 but has lost two stone and her hair and skin looked so good. I asked her what diet she had been following and she said 'none - I've simply given up alcohol, started eating sensibly and get lots of exercise.'
Caper - thank you also for your recommendation to pray. I used to be a Christian (I suppose deep down I always will be) but stopped attending church a few years ago because I felt like an unworthy hypocrite knowing I was drinking myself blind drunk every night. Anyway - I took your advise and started praying again, for God to take away my desire to drink and feel a real sense of peace when I pray - that will be another 'tool' in my box.
Anyway - better get on with some work!! Have a good AL free day everyone.
Snap :rays:
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